Species of the Genus Ceria. 65 
Legs rufous, with the bases of the femora pale corneous. Wings 
with a rufous tinge, and with a broad rufous brown streak along 
the anterior margin. 
Length 5-tenths inch, expansion 1 inch and I-tenth. 
From the north-west coast of New Holland. 
In the Cabinets of the British Museum and the Rev. F. W. Hope. 
This very beautiful species is of the typical form of Ceria, and 
differs widely in colour from any species yet described. 
Sp. 8. Ceria Gambiana, W. W. Saund. 
(Pl. IV. fig. 4; 4a, the head.) 
Head yellow, with the vertex, and two lines down the face, 
meeting above and below, dusky brown. Eyes black. Pedicle 
of antennz and antenne rufous brown. Thorax chesnut brown, 
with two streaks on the upper part extending from the bases of 
the wings to the anterior margin, and two broad streaks extending 
downwards from the same points, yellow. Scutellum yellow. 
Wings tinged with rufous brown, and with a broad band along the 
anterior margin growing darker towards the tip, and the externo- 
medial nerve bordered with dark brown. Abdomen with the first 
joint lengthened and attenuated, chesnut brown, margined poste- 
riorly with yellow, and two yellow spots, one on each side of the 
base; second and third joints black brown, the hinder margins 
yellow; apical joint pitchy brown, with a black line down the 
centre above. Legs rufous brown, with the hinder femora banded 
with yellow. Tarsi rufous brown. 
Length 7-tenths inch, expansion 1 inch and 38-tenths. 
From the river Gambia. 
In my own Cabinet. 
This fine species very much approaches in form the Cera 
Eumenioides, which I have described in a previous paper read before 
this Society, (vol. i. Pl. V. fig. 6.) 
Sp. 4. Ceria breviscapa, W. W. Saund. 
(Pl. 1V. fig.5; 5a, the head.) 
Head black; the face yellow, with a black cross, the transverse 
band of the cross near to the pedicle of the antenne. Pedicle 
of antennze very short, rufous brown. Antenne pitchy brown. 
Thorax black, with three yellow round spots above on the anterior 
margin, and two narrow transverse just before and in a line with 
VOL, Iv. F 
